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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 25, 2014 22:04:10 GMT -5
Unless I feel the need to get up and dance, I see video watching as an effortless activity. I don't want to put in work or pay extra just to see videos.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 22:27:34 GMT -5
My god, MTV used to be amazing.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 25, 2014 22:42:37 GMT -5
I'll be honest; who cares if MTV doesn't play music anymore? Youtube makes the very idea pointless.
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Post by unc40 on Jan 26, 2014 0:29:20 GMT -5
Just had to post this:
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 26, 2014 4:02:23 GMT -5
I'm 8 years older than you and at no point in my living memory has MTV 'only' played music in our country. I am 13 years older than you and I do remember a time when MTV aired only music. The format worked for well over a decade before they felt the need to change. I'm not saying it never happened, I meant there's no way he can think it was better when he never experienced it.
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Post by SOR on Jan 26, 2014 4:44:28 GMT -5
Not to be a dick but I just preferred MTV when they played music. I'm 8 years older than you and at no point in my living memory has MTV 'only' played music in our country. This. I'm 22 from Australia and I believe MTV has always been a mixture of things. If I had to take a guess I'd assume the early to mid 90's would have been the last of MTV simply playing music videos. OP just trying to fit in I would imagine.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2014 5:28:48 GMT -5
In the early 90s they were not playing nothing but videos.That is when stuff like Liquid Television and Beavis and Butthead started airing.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 26, 2014 5:36:17 GMT -5
I don't mind MTV as it is, but I do think there needs to be a bigger emphasis on MUSIC. MTV should be the network having the "win a recording contract" contest shows, not the Big Four. Why not have a reality show chronicling the struggles of an aspiring artist or highlighting the life of an indy band?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 26, 2014 6:16:10 GMT -5
Ahhhh, Headbangers Ball.....Up there with Noisy Mothers/Raw Power on Channel 4, good times, good times. 120 Minutes > Headbangers Ball I remember when MTV tried to cover a huge music event, and gave us the worst coverage imaginable. I know it was almost a decade ago, but I don't think it's possible to cover a music event worse than MTV covered Live 8.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 26, 2014 7:10:40 GMT -5
I miss when MTV used to air Monkees reruns and Remote Control.
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Post by DoubleDare on Jan 26, 2014 8:11:16 GMT -5
Wanna hear something even more crazy that flat out couldn't exist today? The Box Music Television, a channel that would show listings of what music videos were out, and people would call in and pay like 2-3 bucks for a music video to be shown, and it would be shown. Mostly rap videos would be called in, or dennis leary's "asshole".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 9:16:17 GMT -5
They peek through windows, they hide in closets. They're not perverts...UH-UH! They're "Private Dicks".
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 26, 2014 9:52:30 GMT -5
MTV started non music programming in 1986 with Remote Control. The novelty of only showing videos had worn off by that point, but they had always had music related specials and concerts from the very beginning though.
Not only does youtube have the videos, they also have a ton of old MTV footage with the VJ's. I basically have reconstructed MTV in my own home.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 26, 2014 9:56:09 GMT -5
YouTube ended MTV's relevance.
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Post by SOR on Jan 26, 2014 10:11:31 GMT -5
In the early 90s they were not playing nothing but videos.That is when stuff like Liquid Television and Beavis and Butthead started airing. Well there we go then, OP was born in 1996 so definitely isn't in the "I remember when MTV played nothing but music" boat.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 26, 2014 10:25:53 GMT -5
In my dreamed of remake of Back to the Future, this is the song that will be playing when Marsha "Marty" McFly (played by Chloe Grace Moretz) wanders around 1985 Hill Valley for the first time.
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Post by agent817 on Jan 26, 2014 10:58:15 GMT -5
Hey, remember when VH1 was not an E! knock-off?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 10:59:46 GMT -5
I remember them launching MTV2 promising that to be the new 24/7 music channel. I think it was 2 years after launch that they backed off from that and just started showing reruns of old shows.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 26, 2014 11:06:59 GMT -5
I remember them launching MTV2 promising that to be the new 24/7 music channel. I think it was 2 years after launch that they backed off from that and just started showing reruns of old shows. I do recall, I think it was at the kickoff of the year 2000, that they played nearly every video they had in alphabetical order. It was fantastic
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2014 16:47:56 GMT -5
In the early 90s they were not playing nothing but videos.That is when stuff like Liquid Television and Beavis and Butthead started airing. Well there we go then, OP was born in 1996 so definitely isn't in the "I remember when MTV played nothing but music" boat. Even when MTV first hit the airwaves they were showing stuff like Monty Python and The Young Ones.
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